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Berenson, an award-winning novelist, a number one New York Times best-selling author and a former New York Times reporter.

His latest book, Tell Your Children, The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness and Violence, is his second nonfiction book.

His debut novel, The Faithful Spy, based on his time reporting in Iraq, won the Edgar Award for Best First novel.

He's written a total of 12 novels and two nonfiction books.

The Yale graduate, Alex,

Alex currently lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and children.

So welcome, Alex.

Thanks for coming on Mom's No Time to Read Books.

Simby, thanks for having me.

I'm really excited to talk about tell your children the truth about marijuana, mental illness, and violence,

which is such an amazing service you're doing by collecting all this information and research about what us parents should know and what we need to inform our children. It's super important. So thanks for doing all that work. Well, thank you. I was, you know, I was a reporter for the New York Times, and then I became a spy novelist, and then I had some children or my wife had the children.

You can take credit. It's all right.

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